I Flexed My Text
...I read her text:
"I'm vexed and oversexed,"
"Oh no, what will my Mother think?"
I sent a text:
"Screw vexed, Baby, I'm next,"
"Bring your Mom along for a drink!"
I read her text...
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Categories:
flexed, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Wand of Kismet
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Written: May 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: “Set yourself on fire and seek those who fan your flame.” By Rumi
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Categories:
flexed, analogy, divorce,
Form: Free verse
The Clown
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The spotlight flashes with a funny flair
on the sagged dress of a meek man on stage.
A miniature crimson cold sun shines stuck
on his puckered porcelain face of forced smile.
An ...
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Categories:
flexed, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Fifty-Seven Firestorm
...They met back in school when perms were in style..
Now they’re fifty-seven and wickedly wild.
A sisterhood forged in detention and pranks..
Now fueled by cocktails and cackles and tanks.
Dera...
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Categories:
flexed, friendship, fun, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Doubt - Mar 10
...To draw the string back, with a notched arrow,
To sense the taut twine pull against and test
The strength of stiffed up shoulders and flexed chest—
But not to loose the arrow at the sparrow;
T...
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Categories:
flexed, bird, crush, fear, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Colonization Of Hawaii
...Colonisation Poetry Contest
Kai Michael Neumann
Hawaii, my birthplace, and hometown
Fell victim of being colonized and uprooted
Those dirty rats ceased the cheese
By the 1900's the U.S annex...
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Categories:
flexed, corruption, home, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Greed And Wreckage
...An infant is brought into being,crafted out of earthly elements
Out of soil,out of water, breathing air moment after moment.
Nerves get nourished,strength is acquired as blood circulates through v...
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Categories:
flexed, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Careful Flirt
...If you flirt men
Keep your bones flexed
Careful next time....
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Categories:
flexed, care, engagement, lust, perspective,
Form: Than-Bauk
Two Old Gods
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Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and crisscross...
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Categories:
flexed, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Petals on the Wind
...Early in the morning
as the sun began to rise
as the birds began to wake
and fly into the sky
soaring high above her head
in the misty morning dew
while the rivers trickle onward
to greet the...
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Categories:
flexed, lost love, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
GrassRoot UpRising
...Asked the crowning Trees
of their Grass rooting neighbors
When you feel like singing
while dancing
are you more likely to invoke devotion
to capitalism's competitions
or compassion's cooperat...
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Categories:
flexed, devotion, earth day, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Fantastic Four
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Cosmic rays catalyzed their mission
Mister Fantastic, Reed, led the group
He could stretch like atomic fission.
He bent and flexed to assist the troupe.
Before, girlfriend, later fianc...
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Categories:
flexed, family, fantasy, fire, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Wearing a Drip-Dry Memory
...Your hands lingered as prints upon my mind.
I became a glove for your love.
I gave you time,
I gave you my tongue
so you could speak a moment of ecstasy.
You gave me Cauliflower cheese,
the...
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Categories:
flexed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gnarled
..."People will forget what you said, forget what you did,
but will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Maya Angelo...
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Categories:
flexed, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Her Willow Weeps
...like a hush …
sentinel …
the old willow stood guard
his branches, stout arms that held her
safe in childhood
supple limbs hugged and
flexed whene'er she sought blue sky
his embrace of lush f...
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Categories:
flexed, analogy, death, grief, loss,
Form: Personification
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